napowrimo 2020 introduction coronavirus 9

INTRODUCTION 2020

Never say never again, because here we are, here I am sitting down in anticipation of completing my twelfth year of napowrimo, the thirty poems in thirty days challenge during the month of April.

This year of course we have the additional worldwide threat of Coronavirus hanging over all of us.

May I take this opportunity to wish you all a happy napowrimo 2020 and to leave you with a little taster of what is to come.

Coronavirus 9

FALSE NEWS
everything's gonna be fine blah blah
misinformation disinformation
confusion illusion
and anything else ending
in iron yon or shone blah blah blah
blues false news penny chews
situation frustration
intimidation constipation
all these may or may not be
symptoms of immunity
blah blah blah di blah blah blah
31032020

Coronavirus 8

novirusinformation dot con

Thunder clapping light embracing the shame

they tell me it's not love it must be lust

oh what a crying shame but who's to blame

if there's no one to care who can you trust
Novirusinformation dot con/straight

they tell us that we can have what we had

the things we hate will multiply like bait

before they get better or drive us mad
Mad as a hatter or mad lazy so

crazy baby lazy to the extreme

isolation living the dream whoa woe

explanation on hold like my big dream
Victory will come when we all get well

okay until then our lives might be hell

29032020/1/SH129

Coronavirus 7

BOWER NOT FLOWER

If only things were made out to be fair

the time it takes make no mistake to name

that come what may Charlie will still be heir

although if this virus puts us to shame

Across the globe who will remain in power

only the ones who face us face to face

therefore if their ideas do not flower

they will lose power and end in disgrace

They ask is day as bright as night is black

or are things not really quite as they seem

the rich will still be rich and have no lack

workers can only dream of self esteem

So troubles come and go in times of woe

if that's the way things are it sure looks so

28032020/SH127

Coronavirus 6

WHAT A CONUNDRUM

Where did you go to my long long lost friend

please don't pretend that you're everyone's friend

Bitter sweet holiday

romance it ain't

there's always a reason

to season with salt

In Norfolk and Windsor

she may be the Queen

been at the helm

before Karloff was born

But now that he's got it

and Charlie boy too

what a conumdrum

the heir to the throne

So don't come to Cornwall

or Scotland or Wales

do as they tell you

don't do as they do

Where did you go to my long long lost friend

please don't pretend that you're everyone's friend

27032020

Coronavirus 5

GOD BLESS THE NHS

Contradiction personified

they talk about the turning tide

food parcels will be left outside

Seventy eight point seven four zero two

inches not only when you're in the queue

at work practice social distance too

God bless the NHS stay home save lives

no work no income how will they survive

Universal Credit – you can't get through

but volunteers got signed by half past two

Seventy eight point seven four zero two

inches not only when you're in the queue

at work practice social distance too

Contradiction personified

they talk about the turning tide

food parcels will be left outside

26032020

Coronavirus 4

COVID – 19

conspiracy theory

they say people say

the powers that be

and their puppet Gendarmes

they've got us

where they want us

locked up

or locked down

in every city

countryside village

or self isolated town

However rules are elective

and only apply

to the unschooled unwashed

but not to the guy

that wants to keep making

more products to sell

hell he'll find ways to

keep his wokforce well

well maybe not well but

you know what I mean

he'll say they're essential

to the NHS scheme

of course what he really means

is his personal wealth

he's entitled to dream

25032020

Coronavirus 3

RARELY REALLY

(SURELY NOT THAT)

So (comma) they say - before they respond

spondulicks lighting up their greedy eyes

yes – so – the buzz response to anything

kerching un-till the Jack and Jill is full

Full of candy and sugar coated dough

doe ray me far so - so what - sew it up

put I before E except after C

see what I'm talking about now – money

Money money money bread and honey

phoney telephoney transportation

transport by buses trains and cars it's not

nothing is - rarely really - what it seems

Seems like so - is the new well – how deep's that

that's way out and groovy - surely not that

24032020

Coronavirus 2

SIDEWAYS AIN'T UP

Uncertain uncertainty

insanity believe me

no one knows 'cos

the answer ain't here

Welcome to the global village

that's too tired to sleep

Leap up and down

(in your dreams)

and celebrate the street

take a walk in the forest

but watch out for those Gestapo trees

Cuckoo as the Stepford Quintet

experimental triangulation

with a pinch of Tippex (Strikethrough) sex

Now nobody can go anywhere

unless they've got some place to go

Ironically chronically

de ja vue we've not been this scared

since nineteen eighteen

Emotionally unstable

the insatiable appetite

of the super bitch

sadists masochists

and the extremely rich

To King Karloff and his phoney cronies

sideways ain't up

23032020

Coronavirus

COLD OR BEEK

cyrus virus

the sparrow's beak

corona pop the saxaul's peek

at lonely girl

bubble and squeak

is isolation cold or beek

up the paddle

without a creak

as silent as a lonely leek

when she went up

atop the peak

the tide was turning in the creek

no one was there

oh what a weak

and helpless thing timid and meek

so far apart

things look so bleak

pray she gets better by next week

cyrus virus

the sparrow's beak

corona pop the saxaul's peek

at lonely girl

bubble and squeak

is isolation cold or beek

22032020